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On 6/2/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that |
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> just takes up space, such as /usr/portage. |
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Just take out space?! Ok, I know you must strip down stuff, but |
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portage is the heart of Gentoo, without it, you strip your |
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administrative tools also. |
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> I made a binary package with quickpkg, to install (with emerge --usepkg) |
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> on one of these PC's, but it complains about lots of stuff missing. |
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You have no portage tree, you can't install using emerge... |
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> So, if I want to do without /usr/portage, can I just install binary |
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> packages by untarring them to / ? Or is there other essential stuff |
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> that emerge does when you install a binary package? |
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You can, but its not certain to work, because there is more stuff |
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involved in installing an app than just putting files at the right |
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places. Note I'm not saying it won't work, it MAY work, but you can't |
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guarantee. Many packages have post-install scripts, and some need |
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checking to see if the environment is sane before install. |
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> I would appreciate comments on how to make this work - maybe by just |
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> leaving an essential subset of /usr/portage. Note, that I know I won't |
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> be able to emerge anything from source without most of the /usr/portage |
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> stuff, but I'm happy with that, as all these PC's are close images of |
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> each other, and we have one master copy with a larger HD. |
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If I were you (that's MHO) I would leave portage there, its not THAT |
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big anyway... But if there's no way to leave it and you're looking for |
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alternative ways to do it, you'll have to put portage somewhere (disc, |
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network, usb stick, second hard drive) to use emerge. |
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